Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

A wide-ranging study of contemporary American fiction, from the Sweet Home of Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) to...  Read More >>

1984, Brave New World, and The Handmaid's Tale are today's best-known dystopian novels. They represent a fast-growing...  Read More >>

How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist had ever contemplated...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging study of contemporary American fiction, from the Sweet Home of Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) to...  Read More >>

Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this collection,...  Read More >>

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Robert Eaglestone explores the interweaving of complicity, responsibility, temporality, and the often problematic...  Read More >>

A personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself...  Read More >>

An innovative cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated and most imitated novel in the...  Read More >>

Tracing the development of Fielding’s agendas, Johnson presents a compelling portrait of an author who claimed a...  Read More >>

Winner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) 2017 Edited Collection Prize This book...  Read More >>

Rewriting the Ancient World looks at how and why the ancient world, including not only the Greeks and Romans, but...  Read More >>

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She-Wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature...  Read More >>

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Collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic...  Read More >>

A detailed and engrossing account of the last - and arguably most intense - love affair of one of the greatest British...  Read More >>

An exploration of the life, work, and historical background of Aphra Behn: seventeenth-century dramatist, poet,...  Read More >>

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An insight into the brutal and beautiful life of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, detailing his struggles with homosexuality,...  Read More >>

Shadow Woman will leave you with little doubt that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle neither created Sherlock Holmes nor wrote...  Read More >>

An unconventional approach to leadership, perfectly tailored for the next generation!  Read More >>

An iconoclastic re-evaluation of one English Literature's most celebrated novelists.  Read More >>

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